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Modern Team

Trying to outline the comic history of the Justice Society is an almost sisyphean undertaking, because the team has born the full brunt of every massive continuity and timeline event DC has ever put forward. To the point where you could almost argue that they're the actual cause of most of them. The shift from the Golden Age into the Silver Age of comics brought about the Multiverse. The attempt to unify the Multiverse into a single timeline in the first Crisis played havoc on the continuity of the team, to the point where a near constant stream of retcons left the status of the founding members in utter disarray.

Still, even within that minefield of retroactive continuity do-overs, there is a very real need to use these characters. This is the bedrock of the DC universe. Even the character that aren't still household names represent the earliest true heroes of comics. Continuity doctors James Robinson and Geoff Johns produced some real magic in their modern-day Justice Society, and you simply can't have a functional version of DC without it.

​In order to fully represent the Justice Society in our timeline, We've made a very deliberate choice to not attempt to take the classic World War II era Society and carry those characters into the modern team. There are exceptions, obviously, as some of those classic characters have very specific roles to play, but for the most part we've adhered to the idea that almost the entire team loses their lives while lost in the magical realm of Ragnarok. The wartime team is a very specific entity, and we're very proud of our version of it.

Meanwhile, we've crafted a modern-era Justice Society that exists without the influence of many of the classic characters that define the team in the comics. Instead it's grounded using the stand-out team members of the modern era, becoming a deliberate and successful attempt to honor the classic Society.

In particular, once Power Girl becomes the team chairperson, we've focused on the group's initiative to provide legacy characters with a place to thrive. This makes it a great place for legacy characters like Blue Beetle and Steel to grow into fantastic next-generation heroes under the watchful eye of classic members of the Society that are already legends themselves. This is a very carefully constructed group of heroes that we believe honors the legacy of the oldest and greatest heroes in DC.